Starbucks Gives Back

Building community Starbucks is proud that so many partners at all levels of the company actively support neighborhood organizations that are important to them through volunteering or charitable giving. Whether it’s schools, parks and churches, or being involved in Earth Day clean-ups and walk-a-thons, Starbucks partners are making a difference in their communities.

Make Your Mark
Starbucks believes volunteerism is vital to a healthy community. With that in mind, we created Make Your Mark, a program that matches our partners’ and customers’ volunteer hours with cash contributions to designated nonprofits - $10 for every hour, up to $1,000.

Executive Community Leadership Program
Starbucks believes our senior executives can set great examples for other partners while lending their management expertise to non-profit organizations by becoming board members. Our Executive Community Leadership Program facilitates and supports Starbucks executives’ service on non-profit boards such as Atlanta Children’s Theater, America SCORES, Conservation International, JumpStart and The Seattle Parks Foundation.

Caring Unites Partners Fund
The spirit of helping others can be seen every day at Starbucks through the Caring Unites Partners (CUP) Fund, a program dedicated to supporting fellow partners in need. Funded by partners through voluntary payroll deductions and fundraisers, the CUP Fund provides financial relief to partners facing emergency situations that affect their economic quality of life.

Choose to Give!
We believe charitable giving is a personal decision. Respecting this, Starbucks designed Choose to Give!, a flexible workplace-giving program that matches each partner’s charitable contributions, up to $1,000 annually.

	Fast facts about Starbucks partners giving and volunteering
		Since the Make Your Mark program started in January 2000, partners and customers have volunteered 250,000 hours – generating more than $1.2 million for local charities.
		In September 2003 alone, partners and customers logged 110,000 volunteer hours and Starbucks donated more than $500,000 to nonprofits in North America.
		In 2002, with a match from Starbucks, partners contributed $450,000 to our communities through Choose to Give!

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